R&B star D'angelo joined the protest surrounding the 2014 death of Eric Garner during his performance on Saturday Night Live in America on Saturday (31Jan15) by taking a moment to remember the tragic New Yorker during his two-song set.

Actor Wendell Pierce led the cast of his new civil rights movie Selma in a public protest on Sunday (14Dec14) by wearing T-shirts referencing the police killing of unarmed black man Eric Garner ahead of the film's New York premiere.

Rapper Nas and hip-hop moguls Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles joined forces on Saturday (13Dec14) to hit the streets of New York as part of a demonstration against a spate of recent police killings of unarmed black citizens.

Singer John Legend, rapper will.i.am and actress Gabrielle Union are among the celebrities who have expressed their outrage after learning a New York City police officer responsible for the death of an African-American man will not face charges.

Synopsis

Sully Halverson is a septic tank cleaner who is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper Sabiano is a deaf-mute deli worker who wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Parmie Tarzo is a local mob boss who dreams of crushing the competition and becoming infamous any way he can. These three men have two things in common: they are all searching for better lives, and they all live in Staten Island - the forgotten borough of New York City. Once their lives intersect, nothing will ever be the same.